Watch Man Lets Snake Drink Water From His Palm, Allows Cobra to Quench Thirst From a Bottle [VIDEOS]

Snakes, also known by their scientific name "serpentes," are unfortunately still very misunderstood by most people. They live in a wide variety of habitats, like forests, swamps, grasslands, deserts, and fresh and saltwater. According to the US Department of Agriculture, most snakes people encounter are not poisonous, although it still helps to know which species are venomous when venturing out.

Now, two videos of snakes are going viral on social media that seem unbelievable if they were not filmed. One was of a thirsty snake drinking water and the other was of a snake sneaking behind a man waiting to attack.

Thirsty Snake Drinks Water From a Man's Hand

A video posted by Indian Forest Service officer Susanta Nanda on Twitter shows him helping the snake drink water from his palm. Although snakes are known for their deadly bites, Nanda showed no fear when offering the water to the serpent. Due to that, he has captured the hearts of many people on the internet who saw the video.

In his caption, he urges people to leave some water in a container in the garden for that could help many animals to survive, noting that it could just be what they most need as the summer season is approaching in the country.

It wasn't the first time Nanda acted that way to a snake by helping the serpent drink. Last month, another video featured him giving water to a cobra in 2018. The same video has went viral again. In the caption, he wrote "love & water...Two best ingredients of life."

The viral videos highlighted that even snakes go thirsty even if people do not usually see them drinking water. Some even commented that it was the first time they saw a snake gulped water, News18 reported. However, this is not an unusual behavior as even sea snakes also get thirsty and dehydrated.

According to National Geography, sea snakes have salt glands to get rid of the salt, but even that still makes them thirsty and dehydrated for months on end. Harvey Lillywhite from the University of Florida said that a sea snake is thirsty when it starts to drink fresh water. That means it could also get dehydrated.

He and his colleagues found that sea snakes had significantly less water in their bodies during the dry season than in the wet season. Lilywhite thinks that these snakes try to cope by having unusually high freshwater. They could have also developed some adaptations that help them lose water slowly and withstand the effects of dehydration.

Snake Sneaks Behind A Man in Australia

In relation to snakes, another video is going viral on social media. ABC News posted in Instagram a surveillance video in which a snake creepily crawled behind a man who was only trying to chill out and sit on his deck outdoors.

The digital surveillance camera caught the whole interaction between the snake and the man who was unsuspectingly sitting and doing his work. The man paused to take a sip from a bottle and noticed a sudden movement on the floor. He was shocked when he saw the unexpected visitor near his feet, prompting him to move away from the table while still sitting on his revolving chair. Fortunately, the snake just scrabbled away and left the person unscathed but horrified. Malcolm, the man in the video, said that the serpent could be a tiger snake.

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